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The Taleban and other insurgent groups should be investigated and prosecuted for war crimes, Amnesty International said today, following the release of a United Nations report showing a rise in...

Amnesty International today asked comedians and audiences at the Edinburgh Festival to get behind a new campaign for a comedian jailed for 35 years for criticising the government. Zarganar, aged 49...

Amnesty International has condemned the Mexican authorities’ decision to pursue charges against human rights defender Raúl Hernández for a murder he did not commit, after a state prosecutor today...

The Georgian authorities must do more than the bare minimum to provide adequate housing, employment and access to health care to those displaced in conflicts in the 1990s and the war with Russia in...

Responding to a new televised appeal to David Cameron made by Danny Fitzsimons, the British security contractor detained in Iraq and awaiting trial for murder, Amnesty International UK Campaigns...

Amnesty International today strongly condemned attacks on politicians and journalists in the run up to the presidential elections on this coming Monday, August 9. The murder of a journalist and an...

Amnesty International has called for the release of four Angolan human rights activists unlawfully jailed in connection with an attack on the Togolese football team in Cabinda that left two people...

Amnesty International today urged the Belgrade authorities to halt plans to destroy a Roma settlement amid fears that an eviction could be imminent. At least 70 families living in an informal...

Security forces appear too ready to use live ammunition With a growing number of fatalities in recent days in Jammu and Kashmir, Amnesty International today called on the security forces in the Indian...

With tensions running high ahead of the 4 August poll across Kenya, Amnesty International is urging the country’s politicians not to stir up ethnic hatred or violence during Kenya’s key referendum on...